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words failed someone

words failed someone is the simple past of words fail someone.

Meaning of words fail someone

Phrase

words fail someone

  1. (idiomatic) Someone is incapable of describing something with words, especially due to fear, shock, or surprise.
    • Nature has given me the passion for poesy, but refused me the boon of words and the faculty of expressing my thoughts. I think deeply, but when I wish to speak words fail me. If I wish to write, it is still worse.1857 September, “Seeing the World”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume XV, number LXXXVIII, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, 327 to 335 Pearl Street, Franklin Square, page 544...

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Words failed someone is the simple past of words fail someone.

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